The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her/his tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her/his nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her/his liver is churning out red blood cells until her/his bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She/he also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her/his umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her/his tiny body.
Thanks to babycenter.com I get weekly updates about the baby! It is really fun to look forward to Monday mornings! This is the picture they attached for this week as well. It is starting to look like a baby!!
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